Tag Archives: payments

Square Cash appears on invite-only site, lets you send money with an email

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Square’s been venturing beyond those tiny credit card swipers as of late. Last week, the company introduced its nifty $299 Stand POS system for iOS, and now it appears to be branching out to individuals, with a to-be-announced service called Squar…


Google Wallet will soon let you send payments as a Gmail attachment

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Sending money with Google Wallet wasn’t a tremendously difficult affair before today, but Mountain View’s now discovered a clever new way to part you from your cash. “Over the coming months,” the company will roll out a new payments feature within…


PayPal targets Square with hardware trade-ins, waives fees through 2013

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After watching its rivals Square and Groupon play their hands earlier today, PayPal announced a program that allows merchants to trade in their old payment processing equipment in exchange for new hardware. The promotional offer features POS syste…


Groupon launches Breadcrumb iPad app, vows to not be a typical POS

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Yesterday, Groupon POS appeared in the iTunes Store, but was quickly pulled. Now we know why. Breadcrumb POS, which is the official name of yesterday’s leaked point-of-sale iPad app, is now officially available, bringing a simple interface and a h…


PayPal and Discover expand partnership, will reach 2 million stores by year-end

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When PayPal saw Square for the first time, we’re fairly sure its CEO glumly stared out of the window, said “we’re going to the mattresses” and promptly called the CEO of Discover to talk about an alliance. That unholy union has now brought PayPal …


T-Mobile trade-in offer drops iPhone 5 upfront price to $0 for 4, 4S owners

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As T-Mobile prepares to officially offer the iPhone for the first time, it’s trying to pump up the lure with a trade-in offer for owners of the 4 and 4S models. Available through mid-June, the promotion lets iPhone 4 and 4S owners trade in their curr…


Apple and T-Mobile open iPhone 5 pre-orders, shipping April 12th

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Apple and T-Mobile today opened pre-orders for the iPhone 5, a week ahead of the smartphone’s official April 12th release. T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier in the US, becomes the last of the big four operators to offer the iPhone,…


RadioShack ad for HTC One hints at $199.99 Sprint pricing, $50 Google Play bonus

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Aside from T-Mobile’s pledge to sell the HTC One for $99 down (plus monthly payments), we’ve yet to hear what other carriers will charge for the eagerly anticipated handset when it finally arrives stateside later this month. According…


The knives come out: Visa, Mastercard will charge PayPal and Google for their mobile wallets

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Our long, slow slog towards ubiquitous mobile payments isn’t getting any shorter, and today comments from Visa show that it’s going to get more contentious before it gets better. Visa’s CEO Charlie Scharf said that “it is totally appr…


’60 Minutes’ profile of Twitter creator Jack Dorsey airing tonight at 7PM ET/PT

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Tonight’s episode of 60 Minutes features a profile of Jack Dorsey, the man who created Twitter in 2006 and now heads mobile payments company Square. In a clip from the interview by Lara Logan, Dorsey talks about how he was inspired to…